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The following events took place on May 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 49 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 927

  Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
• 1120

  Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
• 1153

  Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1199

  John is crowned King of England.
• 1644

  Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
• 1703

  Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1798

  The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
• 1799

  War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
• 1813

  War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1849

  The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
• 1860

  Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• 1863

  American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
• 1874

  The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
• 1883

  Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1896

  The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
• 1905

  Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907

  Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
• 1908

  Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
• 1919

  The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1927

  The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• 1930

  The 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 1933

  New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933

  The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
• 1933

  The Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago.
• 1935

  New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1937

  In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1940

  World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
• 1941

  World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an “unlimited national emergency”.
• 1941

  World War II: The warship German battleship is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• 1942

  World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

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